title: [The concept of mental disorders and its treatment by mental health workers in a second level service institution].
abstract: This paper aims at analyzing madness, as considered by mental health care workers from a second level service institution, and how they see the therapy offered by the organization. A research was conducted through semi-structured interviews with mental health care workers. Speech analysis allowed to observe various forms of acquiring madness, divided in two groups: one which reproduces scientific knowledge (linked to the different lines of thought in the area) and the other, that reproduces knowledge acquired through practice. This last group enables a social view of madness, which is a result of social differences. Authors also found the dangerousness of the mentally sick, split in three categories.
authors.affiliation: Ambulatório Regional de Especialidades de São Carlos-SP.
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Pugin
authors.forename: Y C
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Barbério
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Filizola
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003617:Dangerous Behavior; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D011287:Prejudice; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: A concepção de loucura e do seu tratamento entre os trabalhadores de Saúde mental de uma Instituição prestadora de serviço em nível secundário de atenção.